Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a delegation from Midland and Odessa who went to Washington with facts and figures about gasoline shortage in the Permian Basin in West Texas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about legislator delegates who have been arguing about the voting rights of Ex- convicts as the Texas constitution convention moves slowly into the rights and suffrage article.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a new frontal system which has brought winter weather to virtually all of Texas.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Rabbi Newton J. Friedman expressing his joy that Sol Brachman has agreed to be a member of the Hillel Building Fund Board. He also discusses the breakdown of prospective allocations for building fundraising and Eugene Solow's advice to adjust the amount of allocations for various smaller towns.

A form letter addressed to Judge A. H. Dennison, 16th District Rehabilitation Officer, The American Legion, Odessa, Texas, from GCB--George C. Betts, Chairman Rehabilitation Program Committee, dated October 7, 1942. Betts advises that the American Legion Rehabilitation Program Committee met with the Department Rehabilitation Committee and selected Dennison as 16th District Rehabilitation Officer and then explains the goals regarding a rehabilitation program. He advises of the Department Commander appointment of Mr. Henri Warren as Chairman of the Department Rehabilitation Committee. Members of the Department Rehabilitation Program Committee: George C. Betts, L. L. B. Hofer, Howell S. Palmer, H. V. Royston, Henri Warren.

A letter written to Thos. N. Carswell, Major, Infantry Commanding Tenth Battalion, Abilene, Texas, from A. H. Dennison, Captain, Inf. 34th Battalion Staff, Texas Defense Guard, Odessa, Texas, dated November 7, 1941. Dennison acknowledges his receipt of the invitation from Carswell to attend the Armistice Day program but declines the invitation due to previous arrangements.

Letter from Bobby Carter to Truett Latimer discussing concerns regarding the Zively Bill.

Frizella C. Whitiker was born in Greenwood, Lousiana and grew up in Austin, Texas. Whitiker graduated from Anderson High School and Samuel Huston University (1950), now Huston-Tillotson University, in Austin. Upon graduation, Whitiker moved to Odessa to teach in the Ector County Independent School District, specifically Blackshear High School. She retired from teaching in 1986. In Odessa, Whitiker has been a sponsor and board member of Head Start as well as a board member of the Black Cultural Council of Odessa. She has also been a leader of Mackey Chapel of the United Methodist Church.

Richard C. Abalos grew up in Rankin, Texas. After graduating early from high school, Abalos moved to Odessa, Texas where he attended Odessa College and worked for a law form as an investigator and aide. Before obtaining an undergraduate degree, Abalos entered law school at St. Mary’s University in San Antono, Texas. After law school, he was drafted into the military. Upon returning to Odessa, he became the city’s first Mexican American attorney and handled several civil rights cases, including the nationally recognized Larry Lozano police beating that galvanized the region’s Chicano Movement.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a teacher, instructor or professor may serve and draw salary as a member of the Ector County Commissioners Court at the same time he teaches either full-time or part-time for Odessa College and draws a salary for his service there.